December 2011
48 posts
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing... →
The “real market,” Martin explains, is the world in which factories are built, products are designed and produced, real products and services are bought and sold, revenues are earned, expenses are paid, and real dollars of profit show up on the bottom line. That is the world that executives control—at least to some extent.
The expectations market is the world in which shares in companies are...
Essay on Realistic Space Combat →
Space battles are ubiquitous in science fiction. Usually it seems to look a lot like some variation on WWII sea battles: fighters whizz around and engage in space dogfights as the great battleships pound each other with death rays. But in fact this is probably a very unrealistic depiction of what a space battle would look like. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s wondered “so what would a space...
GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA →
The “trial” and sentencing is performed by indifferent corporations who don’t care about the collateral damage they cause. When they do cause damage, they plead ignorance or incompetence, and enforce double standards — similar to how the RIAA recently blamed illegal downloading on their own network on a third party contractor, while holding individuals responsible for the...
“Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation....”
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin (via nirvikalpa)
The backlash against twenty-four-hour connectivity... →
Twin studies and the emerging field of epigentics →
The story began with the much publicized case of two brothers, both named Jim. Born in Piqua, Ohio, in 1939, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis were put up for adoption as babies and raised by different couples, who happened to give them the same first name. When Jim Springer reconnected with his brother at age 39 in 1979, they uncovered a string of other similarities and coincidences. Both men were six...
From my own personal experience with that exact same scenario (almost literally, domains and all), I’d suggest it’s fear you’re suffering from. I had to run into a harsh wall in life before it altered my trajectory, around the age of 28.
When I say fear, here’s what I mean: you’re afraid of what happens if you succeed. The nature of that can take a variety of forms. Some people are afraid of...
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment....”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allergies may be caused by stress in early life →
Or there may be a common cause, e.g. biological or psychological.
Seth Godin: Insulate Yourself
Insulate yourself…
from anonymous angry people
Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand
Precisely measure the results that are important to you
Stay blind to the metrics that don’t matter
Fail often
Ship
Lead, don’t manage so much
Seek out uncomfortable situations
Make an impact on the people who matter to you
Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
Copyedit less,...
A Japanese man has survived for 24 days in cold... →
It’s steadily being discovered that people actual can enter a state of suspended animation. People are being revived after long periods of death after drowning in ice water, for example. The trick is not to revive them too quickly with too much oxygen, because it oxidizes the tissues and causes damage.
What are some insights about the world that... →
Two years after the Airbus 330 plunged into the... →
Some bad design decisions in the airplane no doubt added to the confusion.
Russia's once apolitical youth has taken to the... →
Not participating isn’t apolitical. It can be just as politically involved.
“Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz (via nirvikalpa)
“Let’s be clear about this. The zone is not about trying hard. You...”
– Garret Kramer Stillpower: The True Path to Flow, Clarity, and Responsiveness
“Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.”
“There is probably a point for all entrepreneurs where they have to go “all in”...”
5 Easy Ways to Stay Motivated | Inc.com →
When an accomplished adult took standardized tests... →
It makes no sense to me that a test with the potential for shaping a student’s entire future has so little apparent relevance to adult, real-world functioning. Who decided the kind of questions and their level of difficulty? Using what criteria? To whom did they have to defend their decisions? As subject-matter specialists, how qualified were they to make general judgments about the needs of...
“To some extent you want to identify with those you feel deeply about. You do not...”
– Seth The Nature of Personal Reality
“Out of this war, the greatest since the beginning of history, a new world must...”
– Nikola Tesla
Vitamin B12 Deficiency Can Cause Symptoms That... →
Weekly B12 injections were begun. “Soon afterward, she became less agitated, less confused and her memory was much better,” said Ms. Atkins. “I felt I had my mother back, and she feels a lot better, too.” Now 87, Ms. Katz still lives alone in Manhattan and feels well enough to refuse outside assistance.
Still, her daughter wondered, “Why aren’t B12 levels checked routinely, particularly in...
“All the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz
